Posts Tagged ‘Cancer’

Cancer doctor to plead not guilty to fraud

by Associated Press Published: September 21,2011

Tags: Cancer, cancer treatment, courts, doctors, healthcare, healthcare benefits, healthcare fruad, insurance fraud, physicians

SUMMIT — A Mississippi cancer doctor is expected to plead not guilty today to charges of diluting chemotherapy drugs and using old needles on patients. Dr. Meera Sachdeva is the 50-year-old founder of Rose Cancer Clinic in Summit. She’s scheduled for arraignment today in U.S. District Court in Jackson. Sachdeva’s attorney, Robert McDuff, says she [...] [...]

Cancer doctor petitions court for release from jail

by Associated Press Published: September 20,2011

Tags: Cancer, cancer clinics, clinics, courts, doctors, health, healthcare, physicians

SUMMIT — A Mississippi cancer doctor wants a federal appeals court to let her out of jail as she awaits trial on charges that her clinic diluted chemotherapy drugs and used old needles as part of a multi-million-dollar Medicaid and Medicare fraud scheme. Dr. Meera Sachdeva, the 50-year-old owner of Rose Cancer Clinic in Summit, [...] [...]

Ex-office manager pleads not guilty in fraud case

by Associated Press Published: September 16,2011

Tags: Cancer, clinics, courts, healthcare, healthcare benefits, healthcare fraud, public health

SUMMIT — The former office manager of a South Mississippi cancer clinic pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges that she was involved in a massive health care fraud that included using old needles and giving patients less chemotherapy or cheaper drugs than they were led to believe. Brittany McCoskey, 24, of Monticello, stood shackled before [...] [...]

Self exams the key to finding cancer early

by Laura Smith Published: October 26,2009

Tags: Cancer, early detection, women's health

Director of women’s health in Mississippi may have saved her own life with early detection of cancer   Louisa Denson has survived cancer not once but three times. She knows perhaps better than any survivor the importance of early detection, having found her first lump 23 years ago. She discovered each of the lumps by [...] [...]

Mass. Sen. Edward Kennedy dies at age 77

by Associated Press Published: August 26,2009

Tags: Cancer, Chappaquiddick, Democrats, Helathcare, JFK, Kennedy, Obama, Politics, Reagan, Republians, Senator

BOSTON — Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Mass- achusetts, the last surviving brother in a political dynasty and one of the most influential senators in history, died Tuesday night at his home on Cape Cod after a year-long struggle with brain cancer. He was 77. In nearly 50 years in the Senate, Kennedy served alongside [...] [...]

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